She was a triumph over ugliness, so often more beguiling than real beauty, if only because it contains paradox.

It's odd about tattoos. I've talked to several hundred men convicted of homicide-multiple homicide, in most cases. The only common denominate- I could find among them was tattoos. A good eighty percent of them were heavily tattooed.

Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.

The better the actor, the more stupid he is.

Those final weeks, spanning end of summer and the beginning of another autumn, are blurred in memory, perhaps because our understanding of each other had reached that sweet depth where two people communicate more often in silence than in words: an affectionate quietness replaces the tensions, the unrelaxed chatter and chasing about that produce a friendship’s more showy, more, in the surface sense, dramatic moments.

She was a triumph over ugliness, so often more beguiling than real beauty, if only because it contains paradox.

A beautiful day with the buoyancy of a bird.